Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Tropical Traditions Coconut Oil Giveaway!

* Disclosure: Tropical Traditions provided me with product to review, and I was under no obligation to share it with you all, write a positive review, or host a giveaway in return for the free product. All opinions are 100% honest and my own!

It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of coconut oil.

I've chatted about it quite a bit in the past on the blog, like my Tips & Tricks post here. As I've mentioned though, some of the most common ways I use coconut oil have to do with my babies and my postpartum body. Today, I'm teaming up with Tropical Traditions Coconut Oils for a review and giveaway of their Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil.

- For cradle cap: When your new baby has developed some cradle cap, most likely you won't want to use lotions or creams with chemicals to soften and remove it. For both Little Lady and Little Man, I lightly moisturized their teeny heads with some coconut oil, left it on for the rest of the day, and then very gently rubbed them down with a soft brush to remove the flakes. Works like a charm!

- For sore nipples: As a new breastfeeding mom, most likely you'll have some irritation to your nipples initially. Instead of spending a bunch of cash on lanolin {that I never used again, other than to lanolize my wool diaper covers!} or expensive nipple creams, a little bit of coconut oil to the nipple will work just fine to soothe your irritated ladies. It makes me feel better that anything your baby may ingest is natural and doesn't have a ton of chemicals added.

- A moisturizer for mom or baby: I personally use coconut oil during my pregnancies to decrease the itchy, dry pregnancy skin. You can just apply the coconut oil directly to your skin as a lotion, or you can put a little bit into a warm bathtub and have a soak. Either way, after using it your skin will feel soft and smell like a beachy vacation. I don't typically use a lot of lotions on my babies, but I have in the past during some very dry winters with our very new babies. If their skin looks cracked or painful due to our dry weather, I'll use a bit of coconut oil. Again, because it's not a lotion filled with chemicals, I'm not concerned if those little hands reach their mouth and some is accidentally ingested.

- Applied during perineal massage: Prior to birthing, if you perform perineal massage to decrease the risk of tearing, coconut oil is an excellent natural product to use to do so!

- Natural diaper rash cream: Coconut oil, in my experience, works as a mild to moderate diaper rash cream alternative. When I notice the start of a rash, I often will slather that child up with some coconut oil and give them air time to the bum for a little while.

- Taming those postpartum hair flyaways: I used about a million products to try to tame my postpartum flyaway hair that mainly just stuck out from my head and looked awkward for a number of months, but finally just ended up slicking it down with some coconut oil and calling it a day as nothing else worked.

In addition to these new mama and baby uses, there are plenty of health benefits from coconut oil and ways to use it while cooking as well! Tropical Traditions and I are teaming up as part of my week of giveaways to give you all a massively large 32 ounce jar of Organic Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil!

If you have any questions or trouble with the Rafflecopter, please let me know by message at thenaptownorganizer at gmail dot com! {Open to the U.S. and Canada!}

30 comments:

I use it many ways...I actually buy it by the gallon :) We use it for bum cream, lip balm, cook with it, make all kinds of other good stuff with it too. Sometimes just rubbing coconut oil on our dry skin does the trick. Seriously...EVERYTHING. lol

Use coconut oil for so many purposes! Cook with it, use it with essential oils, use it on myself, my face, body hair, eat it, use it on my baby as diaper rash cream, lotion, hair, etc... can go on and on. LOVE coconut oil!!

Just got my first coconut oil today! I think a favorite use for us will be to apply as a skin moisturizer as we go through a ton of lotion, but I worry about all of the additives. This is natural and probably more effective!

I'm obsessed with using coconut oil in baked goods! Black bean brownies, anyone? I agree that it is also great for all the postpartum uses. It is literally the ONLY thing that works for getting rid of that nasty cradle cap!